scope ghost

14 posts

DrKillPatientOctober 23, 2003 at 12:31 AM#

scope ghost

I'm new to AVS. The forums have been great help so far but I can't find an answer to the following question. I was wondering if one could get a blur effect without actually rendering the object that creates the blur. In other words I'd like to render the blur of a line or dot without actually showing the line or dot that created the blur. This way I could create a "ghost" of a scope.

S-uper_T-oastOctober 23, 2003 at 12:37 AM#

Some buffer tricks might be the only way I could think of doing it. I don't know how you could do it exactly, I'll look into making something though...

horse-flyOctober 23, 2003 at 1:44 AM#

i am not catching your drift

edit: maybe i got it. perhaps changing the colors to get a white dot or line on 1 frame, to get the blur, then the render goes back to black...

NemoOrangeOctober 23, 2003 at 2:26 AM#

so you want the blur risidual but you don't want to see any of the render?

The only way I think of doing is having a bunch code & some trick with an on beat effect list most likely.

You're best bet is to just really blur out with the Convo filter. something like:
1
1 0 1
1 0 8 0 1
1 0 1
1

base 16 or whatever.

NemoOrangeOctober 23, 2003 at 2:27 AM#

fix on the convo:

----1----
--1-0-1--
1-0-8-0-1
--1-0-1--
----1----

DeamonOctober 23, 2003 at 7:27 AM#

if you're able to write your blur in a DM, you can do it with buffers.

Magic.XOctober 23, 2003 at 8:44 AM#

Deamon: this might work if there would'nt be the grid size problem.

siddOctober 23, 2003 at 9:26 AM#

something like

-scope
-buffer save
-blur effects
-effect list (ignore/minimum)
---clear screen (white)
---effect list (ignore/buffer blend)
-----clear screen (black)

would also work.. you would need to play around with it. I havnt tried the above example yet.

/edit (fixed misleading typo)

DrKillPatientOctober 23, 2003 at 5:05 PM#

Toying with the convo filter seems the best bet for getting the effect I was after(thanks Nemo). Sidddhartha your idea makes a great looking smoky sort of a scope but it didn't quite get rid of the distinct dots of the scope render. Maybe I can tweak it somehow.

Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions. I'm impressed by the quality of this community.

mikmOctober 23, 2003 at 10:23 PM#

Emphasis on this. If its quality you want, steer well away of General Discussions and the Recycle Bin.

S-uper_T-oastOctober 24, 2003 at 12:25 AM#

General Discusion is terrible, that is for sure. Now the recylce bin is another story! Great things happen their like, the ANGEL AVATAR CLUB! Check my signature for a link to join, and if you sign up now it's 100% free after three easy payments of nothing! I am glad you like it here in the AVS fourms though, it is probably the best one out there. I'll be looking forward to the presets you post here.

horse-flyOctober 24, 2003 at 3:27 AM#

hey, no spamming

S-uper_T-oastOctober 25, 2003 at 12:16 AM#

lol, it is not spamming! 🙄

dirkdeftlyOctober 26, 2003 at 4:02 PM#

umm...so...basically all you want to do is render the blur but not the object.

sorry bud, isn't possible. only thing that'd come close to what you're thinking of is putting the blur after the object, or texering it to something blurry before you started the blurring.